Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses by Jackie Higgins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe – to understand what it means to be human. Through their eyes, ears, skins, tongues and noses, the furred, finned and feathered reveal how we sense and make sense of the world, as well as the u ...Show more
When Least Is Best - How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things As Small (or As Large) As Possible by Paul J. Nahin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Princeton Science Library
What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? What will rainbows look like in the future? Why do soap bubbles have a shape that gives them the least area? By combining the ...Show more
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet by Arthur Turrell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
From a young, award-winning scientist, a look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time--the race to harness the power of the stars and produce controlled fusion, creating a practically unlimited supply of clean energy. The most important energy-making process in the univers ...Show more
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
An inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit that shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world.Science. Nature. Spirit. They do not, need not, and should not overlap completely. But at that center where they do intersect? When we stand in that singular, ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Changed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to u ...Show more
LSD -- the Wonder Child - The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in The 1950s by Thomas Hatsis; Martin Lee (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
* Explores the different groups--from research labs to the military--who were seeking how best to utilize LSD and other promising psychedelics like mescaline* Reintroduces forgotten scientists like Robert Hyde and Rosalind Heywood* Looks at the CIA's notorious top-secret mind-control program MKULTRA* Re ...Show more
What's the Use? The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A bestselling author tries to rehabillitate a much-maligned field.
2022 Australasian Sky Guide by Nick Lomb
$16.95 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Compact, easy to use and reliable, this popular guide by astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb has been providing stargazers with everything they need to know about the southern night sky for over 30 years. It contains the latest information and clear explanations on the solar system updated with the lates ...Show more
The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration by Colin Burgess
$49.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Kosmos Ser.
The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery and exploration, as astronauts and cosmonauts were launched on space missions of increasing length, complexity and danger.The Greatest Adventure traces the events of this ex ...Show more
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You by Sean B. Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driv ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
The Knowledge Machine - How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
It is only in the last three centuries that the formidable knowledge-making machine we call modern science has transformed our way of life and our vision of the universe - two thousand years after the invention of law, philosophy, drama and mathematics. Why did we take so long to invent science? And how ...Show more